Method of selecting and reproducing language characters

• US 4,698,758 A
• Filed: 03/25/1985
• Issued: 10/06/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Inteco Systems Limited
• Original Assignee: Inteco Systems Limited
• Inventors: Larsen, Theodore E.
• Primary Examiner(s): NOT, DEFINED
• Assistant Examiner(s): Meyer, Charles B.
• Application Number:
  US06/715,827
• Time in Patent Office: 925 Days
• Field of Search: 400/109, 400/110, 400/111, 364/419, 364/200, 364/900
• US Class Current: 715/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/53 Processing of non-Latin text kana-to-kanji conversion G06F40/129; vowelisation G06F40/232
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/15 the extracted parameters being formant information

Abstract

A method of selecting and reproducing language characters, preferably in languages having a multitude of pictorial characters, from phonetic or sound representation of the language, includes the steps of displaying the phonetic symbols which show all of the sounds of the language without intonations, selecting the desired sound for constructing a character, displaying all language characters having all intonations of the selected sound, and selecting the particular character having the unique phonetic sound and intonation combination, and the specific meaning intended.

Claims

1. A method of selecting language characters from a plurality of prestored groups of language characters arranged according to the phonetic sound and intonation of the language characters, comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying a first group of symbols representative of the phonetic sounds of said characters, arranged according to a phonetic alphabet;

(b) selecting from said first group at least one of said symbols representative of the phonetic sound of a desired character;

(c) displaying a second group of symbols representative of the intonations of the selected symbols of said first group, and displaying the language characters associated with the symbols representative of intonations;

(d) selecting, from the displayed language characters, the desired language character; and

(e) reproducing the selected desired language character.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of reproducing the desired character in printed form.

3. A method of constructing sentences of pictorial language characters from phonetic representations of the pictorial language, and from groups of pictorial language characters arranged according to language intonations of the phonetic representations, comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying phonetic symbols as phonetic representations of the pictorial language in a plurality of groups;

(b) selecting a desired phonetic symbol group as a preliminary representation of a desired pictorial language character;

(c) displaying pictorial character representations of the plurality of language intonations associated with the selected phonetic symbol group;

(d) selecting a desired pictorial character representation from the displayed character representations;

(e) reproducing the selected desired pictorial character representation; and

(f) repeating steps (a)-(e) until the desired sentence has been constructed of pictorial language characters.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the steps of displaying further comprise displaying on a visual screen.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the steps of selecting further comprise closing an electrical switching circuit uniquely associated with the desired symbol.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of reproducing further comprises copying the desired character in reproduced form onto a media different from the displayed media.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the steps of selecting by closing an electrical switching circuit further comprise depressing a unique location on a touch panel overlay of the displaying symbols.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising the step of reproducing the entire selected pictorial language sentence in printed form.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of reproducing further comprises selecting from a 24 by 24 matrix of printable dot positions only those dot positions which visually form the displayed desired character, and repeating same for all characters in the selected pictorial language sentence.

10. A method of printing pictorial language characters by processing phonetic symbol representations of the pictorial language and language chraracters grouped according to language intonations of the phonetic symbol representations in a computer and visual display screen system, comprising the steps of

(a) displaying a phonetic table representation of the pictorial language on a visual display screen;

(b) selecting one of the desired phonetic representations on the visual display screen by closing an electrical switching circuit which is programmably variable but physically and uniquely associated with the displayed desired phonetic representation;

(c) selecting the group of language characters grouped according to language intonations of the selected phonetic representation;

(d) displaying on the visual display screen the pictorial language characters representative of the language intonations of the selected phonetic representation;

(e) selecting the desired pictorial language character by closing an electrical switching circuit uniquely associated with the displayed desired character; and

(f) printing the selected pictorial character

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising the preliminary step of storing in a retrievable memory representations of all desired pictorial language characters.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the step of printing further comprises selecting from a 24 by 24 matrix of printable dot positions only those dot positions which visually form the displayed desired character.

20. The method of claim 10, further comprising the preliminary step of storing in a retrievable memory representations of all desired pictorial language characters.

13. A method of constructing sentences of pictorial language characters from phonetic representations of the pictorial language, and from groups of pictorial language characters arranged according to language intonations, each such group being associated with a phonetic representation, comprising the steps of:

(a) displaying phonetic symbols as phonetic representations of the pictorial language in a plurality of groups;

(b) selecting a desired phonetic symbol group as representative of at least a portion of a desired pictorial language sentence;

(c) selecting the group of pictorial language characters arranged according to language intonations, associated with the selected phonetic symbol group;

(d) displaying pictorial character representations of the plurality of language intonations associated with the selected phonetic symbol group;

(e) selecting a desired pictorial character representation from the displayed character representations;

(f) reproducing the selected desired pictorial character representation; and

(g) repeating steps (a)-(f) until the desired sentence has been constructed of pictorial language characters.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the steps of displaying further comprise displaying on a visual screen.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the steps of selecting further comprise closing an electrical switching circuit uniquely associated with the desired symbol.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of reproducing further comprises copying the desired character in reproduced form onto a media different from the displayed media.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the steps of selecting by closing an electrical switching circuit further comprise depressing a unique location on a touch panel overlay of the displaying symbols.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising the step of reproducing the entire selected pictorial language sentence in printed form.

19. A method of printing pictorial language characters by processing phonetic symbol representations and language intonations of the pictorial language in a computer and visual display screen system, comprising the steps of

(a) displaying a phonetic table representation of the pictorial language on a visual display screen;

(b) selecting all of the desired phonetic representations on the visual display screen by closing an electrical switching circuit which is physically and uniquely associated with each of the displayed desired phonetic representations;

(c) sequentially displaying on the visual display screen a plurality of pictorial language characters representative of the language intonations of each of the selected phonetic representations;

(d) selecting all of the desired pictorial language characters by closing electrical switching circuits uniquely associated with each of the displayed desired characters; and

(e) printing the selected pictorial characters.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the step of printing further comprises selecting from a 24 by 24 matrix of printable dot positions only those dot positions which visually form each of the displayed desired characters, and repeating same for all characters in the selected pictorial language sentence.